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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1904
Page
3
The prescription department boasts high character drugs and expert compounding. Pharmacists are skilled and the service provides value beyond money, costing customers nothing extra. Prices are claimed to be as low as possible for quality work.
An invalid man, F. E. Marsh, searches a Buena Vista ranch and learns locals chew rabbit bush roots that yield a gummy substance resembling India rubber. A botanist confirms the plant as rubber plant rubbery gum. Ely's Cream Balm markets and atomizer sprays for nasal catarrh with mail order options. A St. Louis investment party inspects a long-idle cotton mill in Denison. An absurd advertisement claims a two dollar method to make hens lay by tying a string.
Kentucky notes Lang Bros. Druggists in Paducah credit Dr. Mendenhall's Chill and Fever Cure with selling over 700 bottles in one season. Physicians here prescribe it and former users reportedly prefer it. Sold by The J. F. Crow Drug Company. Also mentions Boston Globe quip about spiders and music and a remark on worries about money.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy adjourn their convention in St. Louis to meet next year in San Francisco.
The Toledo Blade declares a modern plant and equipment equal to major cities, claiming it's the only weekly edited for every state and territory. It touts plain language, broad topics, and a 170000 yearly subscriber base, with stories and family content.
A column section edited by Mrs H A Benefiell appears in the W O 7 0 edition. The piece reflects period voice and local topics likely of interest to readers of the era.
Ex Gov St John recounts Farmer Boggs selling seed corn to a saloonkeeper, leading to a drunken horse named Faithful and a wrecked phaeton. The tale mocks liquor traffic, with Boggs unable to pay his mortgage and a lawyer suggesting a license. Local pastors and saloonkeepers refuse to sign the petition against the corn.
In thunderous tones a figure denounces licensing such corn sales and quotes scripture. Boggs faints, the lawyer suggests a sham solution to secure personal liberty by converting corn to whiskey and promoting a license to sell it, claiming party protection if the sale is liquid.
An advertisement asserts Ballard’s Snow Liniment targets pain directly for rheumatic and throat or chest aches. Testimonial from O. R. Smith of Tenaha Texas praises its effectiveness, with prices listed as 2c 50c and 1.00 at W J Sedberry. A teacher and a student quote follows in a Catholic Standard and Times excerpt.
The New York board of health's chemist reports wood alcohol detected in all whisky samples analyzed. Louisiana Boll Weevil Association schedules a meeting in Shreveport on November 34.
County Judge T D Rowell proclaims a November 8 1904 election across Marion County to choose district clerk county judge county attorney county clerk sheriff tax assessor collector public weigher and one commissioner per four precincts plus a justice of the peace and a constable for six precincts and to vote on national state and district offices and constitutional amendments nominates presiding officers for eight precincts and names polling places with election conducted under law
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